SEO-ing a freeby website- help needed!

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Has anyone any ideas? I've got a website with Weebly which suits me but it's not being picked up by google. I've had the site for around 9 months. I update my blog about twice a month, add content to pages and try to add in key words such as the service I offer and the town, but what else can I do? I don't really want to pay £500+ for someone to build me a site because in the past when I've had that there has been no increase in enquiries- but is it false economy to do it myself? Any ideas how to make me zoom up the google search engine?

This is tricky to answer without seeing the site and knowing what you are expecting it to come up on. If you search for your exact name/url in google do you appear or is it not listing you at all? If it's not coming up at all then I would speak to Weebly to see if they do anything to make sure it gets found or if they leave this all in your hands.

I'm afraid SEO work can be a long and tedious process and there are lots of factors that impact on your ranking.

Check you heading include key search terms, also google only really uses the 1st paragraph or so on a page so key words need to be at the very start.

You also need to look at where you are linked to and if you are getting visitors. Google works on a 'reputation' system so if your site has a good reputation or is linked to from other sites with good reps then this increases your ranking. So, you need to get your site linked to from as many other decent sites as possible. Get it added to any business listing sites you can find, ask friends who may run relevant sites to link to you if possible. You can even do link swaps if it makes sense with your content.

It can be tricky I'm afraid (I have done SEO work for about 5 years now) and there are no quick fixes.

If you want to chuck me a link to the site then happy to take a look and give some feedback.

The short answer to your question is no. It is not possible to rank a weebly site for many reasons. The main one being its an app. An app cannot be ranked on Google and weebly has no database for you to store files either.

You need to have one built and it needs to be mobile friendly because with the latest Google mice update, from April 21st any non mobile friendly website will loose 50% of its mobile traffic. That's prettymassive!

If you want help just reach out but there is nothing you will ever do to that site as is to make it show up in search engine results. Impossible. If you wrote a trillion articles an hour you still would not show up.

I'm not sure that's true. I mean it's hardly going to be high in anything other then a very specific search but it should be findable and some basic seo could improve things. They have some info on search stuff on the weebly help pages.

hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us/articles/201672817-The-Basics-of-Improving-Your-Search-Ranking

So that does suggest it should be there.

Actually it is true. The tips on the link you posted are just tips but also won't help you much if you had a non weebly website. Much like if you wanted chicken for dinner, I could give you a tip and say "season with salt". Won't guarantee it will be tasty!

To run SEO effectively for example we have 77 line items/tasks per month. If one task is posting 9 pieces of written content on 10 social sharing sites, that is one line item/task not 9.

With weebly you can't even build a landing page on it because it has no data base, you first need to acquire a separate third party domain. Which also means you cannot run a ppc campaign directly off weebly.

This question comes up a lot and there is no weebly website you can reference that ranks in organic search UNLESS it is massively popular with several million monthly viewers which is highly unlikely in your case.

Doing the 6 odd tips they suggest sounds great but not effective. To run SEO you first need to know what keywords to rank for. To do that you need to research several hundred to thousand webpages to see how those keywords perform, what grade they are, what the competition level is and then make a decision on which ones to go for.

Why? Well how do you know if the competition level for those keywords is say 180%? That means you have no chance in this lifetime at all for ranking for that/those keywords as an average website.

How do you know if there is zero search volume on those keywords? Which means no one on earth is search for them.

How do you know how to grade such keywords? Did you know keywords/phrases are graded?

There are a lot of factors involved in SEO and just because weebly offer you 6 odd tips does not mean if you ran those 6 tips 200 times daily you will see any results.

What we have found is the number 1 reason prospects/customers past SEO efforts have failed prior to talking to us is because the foundation was all wrong, followed by zero research. Why do you think some companies offer you SEO ranking in 24hours? Because NO ONE IN THE WORLD SEARCHES FOR THOSE KEYWORDS!!!

Once your research is complete you then have to choose you're primary and secondary keywords and allocate them to the relevant product/service pages with a maximum of 3 keywords per product/service page, then you group your keywords, ensure the url architecture is in order, map them out to target URL's, manual site crawlability and hidden links check.

Then you go on to set up your accounts where you are going to publish content. Like your 10 major business directories set up, top 5 press release accounts set up, Google + authorship account (to ensure your content has your stamp on it and if copied by whomever YOU alone take the credit; allllllllll the way down to reporting and analytics brings you to our 77th monthly task.

If you cannot do this, then you cannot do SEO and if you doubt it, I'd challenge you to show me 1 single weebly site on earth that ranks for major keywords that is not massively popular.

An example of a massively popular App is Tinder. I can prove this by the way if you are still in doubt.

Wow, that's quite a post. I'm impressed by your dedication to selling your services.

Thank you. However my comments are not about trying to sell anything. Far too many business owners are fooled into scenarios that will never work like 6 odd tips promising search engine ranking heaven.

If you don't get proper advise all you are doing is wasting a monstrous amount of time which ultimately is costing you and or your business money. Whatever your business may be i'm sure you would want someone to tell you if they could, that you were being led down the garden path of empty promises right?

After all that's why you contribute here is it not? It's free advise, but one need not take it. At least you know what's what and can then go on to follow or ignore it.

Hi,

The question is what can you do for nothing that will help you get found by Google?

We all know there's plenty you can do if you want to throw £500 a month at your site but let's start with what you can do for say a tenner and then £5 a month as that's as close as I can get to nothing while guaranteeing that Google will find you.

With your £10 go and buy a .co.uk domain name from 123 Reg make sure the domain name you choose contains words you would like to rank for in a Google search.

As an example: dance-shoes-dresses.co.uk

With your £5 go and buy some hosting space. Your £5 a month will get you hosting with a database connection and free from adverts. The DATABASE CONNECTION is critical so don't buy a hosting pack without it.

Once you have your hosting set up, install Wordpress which is free and transfer your content over. Wordpress can be installed without any technical assistance in less than 10 minutes.

By doing just those two things you've laid a solid foundation for your website.

If you now start to write content for your website which is original and informative then Google will start to follow your website. This is called the transfer of knowledge. If your content is lame then NO amount of money will get you a high rank on Google.

Put Google Analytics on your website (that's free) and traffic should start to feed in after 90 days.

Domain Name, Wordpress & Content is the basic starting point.

Don't overthink it. Content is king.